Sexism Archives • MarvelousAI

01 Dec 2019

All Attacks are not Created Equal: Identifying Bias in Accusations

MarvelousAI tracks social media narratives surrounding the 2020 US Presidential campaign. We identify differences in how leading male and female candidates are covered, with a focus on Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Amy Klobuchar. We’ve found that ‘‘Twitterverse” is still not accepting of female…

Twitter Narratives Expose Gender Disparity Between Democratic Candidates

Election Coverage

From January 2019 to June 2019, MarvelousAI partnered with Wilson Center Fellow Lucina Di Meco and University of Maryland professor and scholar Sarah Oates to track and identify online narratives surrounding a sample of the Democratic contenders for the 2020 democratic nomination. In their ASPA paper titled "Running While Female"…

Gender (and Race) in the 2020 Primaries: No, the Playing Field Isn’t Level.

Credibility, Election Coverage, Political Bias

Gender (and Race) in the 2020 Primaries: No, the Playing Field Isn't Level. Classifying twitter conversations A recent column by Margaret Sullivan about the extent of sexism in the current coverage of 2020 POTUS candidates concludes that many storylines about female candidates would never have been written about men. In…